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Sweatty and Piz.

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Manapause makes me sweaty and pissed.

Welcome everyone to sweaty and pissed, menopause and more.

I'm Karen Nickel, nurse practitioner, and I'm Piss, Minapause, and more. I'm Karen Nickel, nurse practitioner, and I'm here today to answer a couple of

listener questions. The first question is from a listener who asks,

can you discuss exercise and its role in hormone balance

and importance as we age?

This is a great question.

I really appreciate it in there. I hope I can clarify what exercise does for us in terms of our hormone balance.

Let me start by saying that in addition to all the other benefits of regular exercise, physical activity is associated

with a 25% reduction in the average risk of breast cancer among women.

And this protective benefit appears to be independent of menopausal status,

meaning you could be pre-minopausal, perimenopausal, menopausal, when you exercise regularly,

you have a 25% reduction in breast cancer risk.

So that's bad enough should be

should motivate us to get out and exercise.

So in previous episodes, we have talked about some of the

hormone imbalance issues that can occur in women. Estrogen dominance can occur at any

age but is most commonly seen in perimenopausal and menopausal women.

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